Hitler - Rise of the Evil

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German title	Hitler - Rise of the Evil
Original title	Hitler: The Rise of Evil
Country of production	Canada , USA
original language	English
Publishing year	2003
length	180 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
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Director	Christian Duguay
script	John Pielmeier ; G. Ross Parker
production	John Ryan
music	Normand Corbeil
camera	Pierre Gill
cut	Henk Van Eeghen ; Sylvain Lebel
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	Robert Carlyle : Adolf Hitler ; Stockard Channing : Klara Hitler ; Jena Malone : Geli Raubal ; Julianna Margulies : Helene Hanfstaengl ; Matthew Modine : Fritz Gerlich ; Liev Schreiber : Ernst Hanfstaengl ; Peter Stormare : Ernst Röhm ; Friedrich von Thun : Erich Ludendorff ; Peter O'Toole : Paul von Hindenburg ; Zoe Telford : Eva Braun ; Terence Harvey : Gustav Ritter von Kahr ; Justin Salinger : Joseph Goebbels ; Chris Larkin : Hermann Göring ; James Babson : Rudolf Hess ; Julie-Ann Hassett : Angela Raubal ; Ian Hogg : Alois Hitler ; Robert Glenister : Anton Drexler ; Robert Russell : Franz von Papen ; Wolfgang Müller : Gregor Strasser ; Christopher Ettridge : Kurt von Schleicher ; Marek Vašut : Max Amann ; Simon Sullivan : 17 year old Adolf Hitler; Thomas Brodie-Sangster : 10-year-old Adolf Hitler; Rod Grover : Heinrich Hoffmann ; Jiri Zeman : Emil Maurice ; Harvey Friedman : Friedrich Hollaender ;
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Hitler - Rise of Evil (Original title: Hitler: The Rise of Evil ) is a Canadian-American biography by Christian Duguay from 2003 . The film tells about the life of the dictator Adolf Hitler , played by Robert Carlyle .

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The film begins with Hitler's childhood in Austria , during which it is reported that he was beaten by his father and that he died early. The young Adolf fails the entrance examination to the art academy and his mother dies of breast cancer. Angela Hammitzsch is supposed to take care of Adolf. Adolf, however, became homeless in Vienna, and a hatred of Jews built up in him, which later spread to communists: at this time, hatred of Jews was omnipresent in Vienna and was noticeable to Hitler, who needed a target for his blind anger fertile soil.

The film also tells the life of Adolf Hitler from his youth in Linz , Vienna and Munich, through his experiences as a soldier at the front in World War I , how he almost went blind after a gas attack with mustard gas in Wervik, Belgium , and was in the hospital in Pasewalk . Here he learns of the November Revolution and the capitulation of Germany in 1918 . As a speaker of the DAP , which was shortly thereafter referred to as the NSDAP , he succeeded in becoming party chairman. At first he was designated as an informant for the DAP; at the police station he had also met Ernst Röhm .

The newspaper Völkischer Beobachter , the swastika , the Hitler mustache and the Hitler salute popularize his party. Hitler met the former pilot ace Hermann Göring and convinced the former chief of the Third Supreme Army Command , Erich Ludendorff , to join him. He also gathered allies around him who were loyal to him, such as Ernst Hanfstaengl or Rudolf Hess. The failed Hitler putsch is portrayed in the film as a consequence of the inflation in 1923 and of Kahr's behavior.

After the putsch was quickly put down, a world collapsed for Hitler. Helene Hanfstaengl prevents Hitler from suicide and is brought to justice. However, similar to his speeches in the Bürgerbräukeller , he succeeded in receiving a lighter sentence in court. He is sentenced to five years imprisonment in the Landsberg correctional facility , but given a pardon after 9 months. Both in the court and in the fortress he meets nationalist-minded people who secretly admire him. In Landsberg he writes Mein Kampf .

The relationship with his niece Geli Raubal , which has often given rise to speculation, is broadly portrayed in the film. Geli eventually commits suicide and is then replaced in his life by Eva Braun .

Hitler received German citizenship in 1932 , and his further rise to " Führer and Reich Chancellor " is shown. The Reichstag fire in 1933 and the Enabling Act with the proclamation in the Kroll Opera House , where the Deutschlandlied is intoned and Franz von Papen speaks out against it, are other important scenes in the film. In the course of the Röhm putsch in 1934, his homosexuality was exposed, he (in Bad Wiessee ) and many others, such as Gregor Strasser and Kurt von Schleicher , were shot, and Hitler's position of power was thereby finally strengthened.

The last few minutes of the film show the completion of the Nazi takeover of power after the death of Reich President Hindenburg in August 1934: the unification of the office of Reich Chancellor and Reich President in Hitler and the swearing-in of the Reichswehr on him. The credits show pictures of the attack on Poland and mountains of corpses in concentration camps . Numbers of soldiers killed in World War II , civilians killed and Jews murdered are displayed.

The first and last shots of the film show a sentence erroneously attributed to the right-wing philosopher Edmund Burke: “For the triumph of evil, it is enough if the good do nothing!”.

backgrounds

The film was shot in Prague and Vienna , but not in Munich, although most of it is set there. The cast included Friedrich von Thun , Peter O'Toole and Liev Schreiber . Robert Carlyle played the title role. Ewan McGregor had previously refused. The historian Charles S. Maier , the literary scholar and rhetoric professor Cornelius Schnauber and the rabbi Joseph Telushkin were on hand as advisors.

Originally the film was supposed to be called Hitler: The Early Years , but due to criticism in advance and the fear that Hitler might appear too likable in the film, both the film title and parts of the script were changed.

The film was shown on television in two parts.

Historical inaccuracies and errors

Originally the Hitler biographer Ian Kershaw was involved in the script. The production company Alliance Atlantis, however, interfered with Kershaw's original to make the film more dramatic. The biographer found the changes so falsified that he withdrew his name.
At the beginning of the film it is shown that Hitler's father Alois dies in front of his son and mother Klara at home with a meal. In fact, Alois Hitler died on the way to his local pub.
The portrayal that Hitler blackmailed his Jewish superiors as a soldier in order to be awarded the Iron Cross is fictitious. Likewise the representation that he narrowly escaped a bombing because he wanted to beat his dog.
Klara Hitler's doctor, Dr. Eduard Bloch , is portrayed as a Hasidic Jew . In fact, like most Jews in Linz at the time, he was assimilated .
It is shown how Hitler flees by train from Vienna to Munich in May 1914. In fact, this trip took place a year earlier.
During the Hitler putsch , shooting is from windows. In fact, the putsch was put down by a police lockdown by the Bavarian State Police . In addition, the scene was filmed in a narrow street that bore no resemblance to the wide Odeonsplatz, where the events actually took place.
When Ludendorff and Hitler stand before the court after the attempted coup, the judge taps the desk with a hammer, American style , which is not the custom in German courts.
Geli Raubal , Hitler's niece, did not call him "Uncle Dolf", as in the film, but "Uncle Alf".
The reason for the second dissolution of the Reichstag in 1932 is completely wrongly presented. The withdrawal of a single parliamentary group (here the NSDAP) from the Reichstag by no means led to new elections and thus did not take place at all. Rather, it was the case that Reich Chancellor von Papen wanted to make a government statement, but was prevented from doing so because the KPD submitted a motion of no confidence and, as President of the Reichstag, allowed Göring to vote on it, ignoring von Papen's request to speak. The motion was accepted by four fifths of the MPs and was overthrown by Papen. However, since the latter had placed the Reich President's dissolution document on Goering's desk during the vote, the vote was declared invalid, the Reichstag was dissolved and new elections were scheduled.
While the appointment of Hitler as Chancellor by Hindenburg on whose orders buckle the belt color of the medal commemorating the October 1, 1938 to recognize the clasp "Prague Castle", which was founded only in the year 1938th
The meeting between Paul von Hindenburg and Adolf Hitler, staged theatrically in the film, at which the Reich President in 1932 is said to have sharply told Hitler that he was just a "Bohemian private" for him, never took this form took place. Many sources (mainly memoirs) claim that Hindenburg had a personal aversion to Hitler. But he never referred to him as a "Bohemian private". Because Hindenburg knew only too well that Hitler had not served in Bohemia as a corporal in World War I, nor did he come from Bohemia. However, there are also sources claiming that Hindenburg would have said this in the absence of Hitler, as he confused his birthplace Braunau am Inn with Braunau in the Sudetenland, which was also Austrian before the First World War.
In the film, it is presented as if Hitler had used the Reichstag fire as a pretext for the "Enabling Act". The fact is that the government's immediate reaction to the fire was the "Emergency Ordinance for the Protection of People and State" signed by Hindenburg, which restricted essential basic rights but was not brought through the Reichstag. The "Enabling Act" on the other hand was passed by the Reichstag on March 24, 1933, almost a month after the Reichstag fire and without any direct connection to it. Emergency ordinance and "Enabling Act" are thus equated in the film.
During the Reichstag debate on the Enabling Act, the members of the NSDAP belt out the national anthem in the film, whereupon the members of all other parliamentary groups, intimidated, give up their resistance to the law. This completely ignores the fact that the communists were already banned and therefore not present, that the SPD faction voted unanimously against the law and that the Reichstag debate requires the dissolution of the Reichstag as a condition for Hitler's chancellorship, the new Reichstag elections on March 5th with massive hindrance to the work of the other parties as well as the opening of the newly elected Reichstag on March 5 in the Potsdam garrison church and lengthy negotiations with the other parties (except the SPD and the banned KPD) regarding the Enabling Act.
After Hitler's appointment as Reich Chancellor, he stands on a balcony; in fact, Albert Speer only added this Führerbalkon to the extension of the Reich Chancellery in 1935.
Hitler's vehicles from the Mercedes brand have the wrong year of construction, they come from a later year of construction.
Most recent American telephones are used. The Imperial German telephones ZB / SA 19 , ZB / SA 24 and the W28 fit into this period .
Fritz Gerlich was not beaten to death by the SS; he died in a shooting together with Paul Röhrbein .
Gregor Strasser was killed by three shots in the temple and two in the back of the head. In the film, an SS man shoots him from the front from a passing car.
Ernst Röhm was dressed when he was shot, but in reality he had bared his upper body.
The breast star of the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross can be clearly seen several times on Erich Ludendorff's uniform. However, this was only awarded to Blücher and Hindenburg.
As in most depictions of Hitler, he is shown here with brown eyes, although his blue eyes were so piercing that people who met him described them as hypnotic. Since it would be easy to achieve an authentic representation using contact lenses , those responsible were assumed to 'not allow Hitler' blue eyes for ideological reasons.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films described the film as "not free from speculation in the private sphere" of Hitler and as "solidly equipped and convincingly played" ; an attempt is made to “avoid any idealization” .
Cinema praised the main actor, criticized the fast narrative pace and wrote that the drama “adheres strictly to facts” .
Der Spiegel described the film as a "flat melodrama with invented key scenes - Hitler for stupid".

Awards

The film received numerous film awards , including two Emmys with seven nominations in 2003 .

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role	actor	Voice actor
Adolf Hitler	Robert Carlyle	Jacques Breuer
Klara Hitler	Stockard Channing	Angelika Bender
Fritz Gerlich	Matthew Modine	Philipp Moog
Ernst Hanfstaengl	Liev Schreiber	Marco Kroeger
Ernst Röhm	Peter Stormare	Leon Rainer
Erich Ludendorff	Friedrich von Thun	Friedrich von Thun
Joseph Goebbels	Justin Salinger	Frank Röth
Paul von Hindenburg	Peter O'Toole	Jürgen Thormann
Helene Hanfstaengl	Julianna Margulies	Madeleine proud
Gustav von Kahr	Terence Harvey	Walter von Hauff
Hermann Goering	Chris Larkin	Claus Brockmeyer
Rudolf Hess	James Babson	Manfred Trilling
Friedrich Hollaender	Harvey Friedman	Claus-Peter Damitz
Anton Drexler	Robert Glenister	Dieter Memel
Alois Hitler	Ian Hogg	Michael Rüth
Gregor Strasser	Wolfgang Müller	Wolfgang Müller
Georg Neithardt	George Pensotti	Michael Gahr
Eva Braun	Zoe Telford	Sonja Reichelt